Temperature relationships of Antarctic vegetation

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1967
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Greene; Rudmose; Siple; South Orkney Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Spitzbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1967.0015; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.1967.0015

The extremely impoverished nature of the vascular flora in Antarctic regions has long been recognized and contrasted with the richness of comparable latitudes in the northern hemisphere. Rudmose Brown (1906), for example, reported finding no vascular plants on the South Orkney Islands (lat. 61° S),...